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LONDON — The Who’s Pete Townshend on Monday branded Apple Inc.’s iTunes a “digital vampire” that profits from music without supporting the artists who create it.
Townshend said that faced with the Internet’s demolition of established copyright protections, iTunes should offer some of the services to artists that record labels and music publishers used to provide. These include employing talent scouts, giving space to allow bands to stream their music and paying smaller artists directly rather than through a third-party aggregator.
The guitarist was delivering the first John Peel Lecture, named in honor of the British radio broadcaster who died in 2004.
